They are not walking around unarmed just so they get a chance to leap in front of bullets ~ that formula does not compute.
They are armed to shoot back!
This particular event in Columbia suggests that they can no longer be trusted with that job ~ so a detailed investigation must be made. After all a guy who can't be trusted to keep his britches on long enough to do his job 24/7 can't be trusted.
Frankly I don't care if the Secret Service ends up with nothing but karate masters ~ we cannot have them bringing hookers into the rooms the government rents for them to sleep.
NOTE: last Fall during the "Occupy Wallstreet" Leftist insurgency one of them got close enough to the White House with a rifle to take some shots at the windows. That was ANOTHER Secret Service failure.
This President needs protected from his friends.
Uh, thanks for the info that the Secret Service agents are armed...except that I and everyone else already knew that, LOL.
My question was about whether Cummings was referring to Secret Service agents, or other people. It seems clear that he was in fact talking about the SS. He should be grilled about this on the House floor, and anywhere else possible.
Or to shoot first. They aren't going to wait until someone takes a shot at their charge, if they see the threat in time to do that. Unfortunately, their record is not that great. They failed to even notice Oswald, Sirhan, or Hinckley. They did better by Ford, stopping Manson Family member Fromme before she could fire. But it was left to a Vietnam vet in the crowd to disrupt the aim of San Francisco leftist radical Sara Moore.